A lovely evening just at the autumnal equinox at the entrance from Trawbreaga Bay into Trawbreaga Lough in Donegall. Snapped this while driving to Five Finger Strand, just up the road.
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Located at the corner of Eden Quay and Marlborough Street on the north bank of the River Liffey, Eden House was constructed in 1829 as the offices of The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, whose coat of arms still adorns the building. Some restoration work was carried out in 1915 by W H Byrne & Son.
The shipping company chose to locate its headquarters here because it was originally the limit of the Liffey’s navigability to sea-going vessels.
This was a very cold morning and the cyclist was commensurately brave!
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Rothe House is a late 16th-century merchant's townhouse complex located in the city of Kilkenny. The complex was built by John Rothe Fitz-Piers between 1594–1610 in the English Renaissance style which was introduced to the south-east of Ireland by the Thomas Butler, the 10th Earl of Ormond, in the 1560s. It is made up of three houses, three enclosed courtyards, and a large reconstructed garden with orchard. As a museum, it is accessible to the public. It is the only remaining example of a complete burgage plot in Ireland, and considered to be nationally significant because of the range of original post-medieval features that survive. The property, an important element of Kilkenny's heritage, is owned by the Kilkenny Archaeological Society.
The Rothe family were merchants foremost, but also involved in politics. They were part of an oligarchy of around ten families who controlled Kilkenny throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, and into the 17th century. Rothe house was constructed on a burgage plot John Rothe Fitz Piers acquired. All three houses are dated, the first at 1594 on John Rothe's coat-of-arms next to the oriel window, the second at 1604 in an inscription on the cistern once connected to the second house and the third at 1610 on the Rothe-Archer coat-of-arms above its entrance door.
The house was confiscated after Charles I's defeat in England, due to the family's involvement in the confederation of Kilkenny. It is believed that the Ecclesiastical Assembly, one of the three bodies forming the confederation, met at Rothe House. Following the restoration of Charles II, the house was given back to the Rothe family, but they lost it again after the Battle of the Boyne. It changed ownership several times, before it was finally purchased by Kilkenny Archaeological Society in 1962.
For over 100 years (until 2015), the second house served the Gaelic League as a meeting venue, where Thomas MacDonagh taught Irish history.
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Kilkenny Courthouse, also known as Grace's Castle, is located on Parliament Street.
Built on the site of Grace's Castle, a structure dating back to the 13th century, the current building, which was designed by Sir Jerome Fitzpatrick in the neoclassical style and built in ashlar stone, was completed in 1792. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Parliament Street; it was arcaded on the ground floor with flights of steps leading up to the end bays; the central section featured a tetrastyle portico on the first floor with Doric order columns supporting an entablature and a modillioned pediment.
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The buildings on the corner are early 20th Century – 1 O’Connell Street, the corner building, built for the Irish Nationwide building society, dating to 1917; the Ulster Bank with its red-brick to the left dates to ca. 1920; the Corinthian columns slightly to the left also now belong to the Ulster Bank, part of the 1923 building originally built for the Hibernian Bank.
Left of shot is the O’Connell Monument, commissioned by Dublin Corporation, conceived in 1866 by John Henry Foley and completed in 1883 by Thomas Brock. The plinth is surmounted by a bronze figure of the “Great Emancipator” Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), encircled below by bronze frieze of people of Ireland in high-relief, having nearly thirty figures symbolizing church, professions, arts, trades and peasantry. At angles to the square granite base are seated four winged victories, grandly scaled bronze figures representing Patriotism, Courage, Eloquence and Fidelity. There is evidence of bullet holes on the arms and breasts of two of the victories, a legacy of the unrest of 1916-22.
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